Summary

A YouGov poll revealed that 77% of Germans support banning social media for those under 16, similar to a new Australian law.

The survey found that 82% believe social media harms young people, citing harmful content and addiction.

In Australia, the law fines platforms up to AUD 49.5 million (€30.5M) for allowing under-16s to create accounts, with enforcement trials set before implementation next year. Critics

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    The True Problem, is that an actual-safe-space is required, for kids,

    & that costs investment to produce, & to maintain.

    We pay for kindergarten & schools to be safe-spaces, don’t we?

    Children’s forming brains require healthy place, right?

    Same is required for internet, for them.

    So, a “walled garden” with wikipedia ( not the gore-centered stuff, & there seems to be some of that on there ), & TVTropes,

    etc, is required for them to develop their minds healthy,

    but the only “successful” walled-gardens were made with machiavellian intent, thus-far…

    Apple’s walled-garden, Microsoft’s, AOL’s, Google’s, etc…

    Nobody’s done a not-for-profit edition for humanitarian reasons…

    Big Tech’d sabotage it any way they could, in order to “prove” it “doesn’t work”

    ( it’ll never be seen in Google News, Facebook may well disappear all references to it, Apple wouldn’t permit it on their platform’s App Store, etc… )

    Exterminating-alternative is required when the stakes are world-possession, right?

    NO competitor allowed, right??


    Nobody’s got the spine to create the required walled-garden which simultaneously gives children

    • access to meaningful friends

    • lots of learning opportunities & learning-means

    • gamefied learning, like projects-done-together on interesting-to-them subjects, with real accomplishings, like Science Fairs can be, irl

    • systematic stomping of abuse, predators, bullying, etc…

    • systematic training them in sane privacy-habits, device-health habits ( update your apps weekly! Reboot your device weekly! Use antivirus! )

    • systematically training all children in critical-thinking, dismantling ideology-programming as completely as possible, from the next-generation

    etc.

    & if anybody did have the spine, then it’d be force-disallowed by Big Tech.

    Humankind waited too long to care, & now the bad-guys own the whole “game”, it looks like, to me…

    Human children never will know what honest, proper, supportive systematic-development through interesting challenges, & safe growing-up can be, because our-generations wouldn’t do what was required, when we had leverage to be able to do it.

    “fighting over crumbs” is all that’s left, it looks like…

    ( lobbied “representatives” wouldn’t allow world-integrity to violate their owners’ interests, either, obviously… )

    Sorry for my bitterness, but I’m old.

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